While we very much appreciate all the readers of this blog and insist that you keep tuning in, don’t forget that First Things is also hosting four new blogs. They’re firing on all cylinders. At the Anchoress , Elizabeth Scalia discusses media bias—against Bush and toward Obama: . . . . Continue Reading »
This looks like it might be, as the phrase has it, a smart comedy: NBC’s Community , coming for the 2009-2010 season. The show brings together an eclectic band of community college students, albeit thoroughly and more than likely unfairly stereotyped. From the NBC website: It’s . . . . Continue Reading »
http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com/ is the blog-site of Larry Arnhart, the leading Darwinian conservative. There, you can see, he describes ME as a Gnostic existentialist Heideggerian for not believing that Darwin explains it all about human beings. Arnhart puts . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s the hilariously serious Mark Steyn commenting on those “Free Tibet” bumper stickers back in 2005 The other day I found myself, for the umpteenth time, driving in Vermont behind a Kerry/Edwards supporter whose vehicle also bore the slogan ‘FREE TIBET ‘. It must be . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t listen to Michael Savage, but it seems odd to me that a talk radio shock jock would be banned from the UK because of things he has said, but that Philip Nitschke would be allowed in despite what he does—teach people how to commit suicide. From the BBC Story on . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, class. We’ve been learning how God is one God, but three Persons, and I’m wondering if anyone can tell us the names of those three Persons. Anyone? Yes, you there. Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer? Um . . . well . . . those are things which the three Persons do, but they . . . . Continue Reading »
If the New York Times shuts down, at least I won’t have to respond to mind-numbing items like David Brooks’ April 30 peroration, “Genius: the modern view.” Aldous Huxley’s wife Laura infamously said that her husband looked like a stupid man’s idea of what a clever . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier I mentioned part I of Daniel Patrick Maloney’s series at Public Discourse on reducing poverty by reducing the number of poor children. In part II, Maloney, a former FT associate editor, looks at transcripts from Senate Finance Committee hearings in the 1970s and argues that the . . . . Continue Reading »
The “s” is important. Do keep reading , writes Mark Edmundson in The Chronicle Review . It’s readings that are the problem, readings that hinder reading. Often masked under the title “theory,” readings don’t just provide sophisticated language for voicing . . . . Continue Reading »
Gabe Ledeen, a former Marine captain and two-tour veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, has a bone to pick with the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In ” Who Speaks for Veterans? “ he details two specific complaints which are symptomatic, he thinks, of a larger problem. Ledeen’s first . . . . Continue Reading »
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